English
Related papers

Related papers: Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Methods for Gini Co…

200 papers

The categorical Gini correlation is an alternative measure of dependence between a categorical and numerical variables, which characterizes the independence of the variables. A nonparametric test for the equality of K distributions has been…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-02 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang , Yichuan Zhao

The categorical Gini correlation, $\rho_g$, was proposed by Dang et al. to measure the dependence between a categorical variable, $Y$ , and a numerical variable, $X$. It has been shown that $\rho_g$ has more appealing properties than…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Sameera Hewage , Yongli Sang

Widely used income inequality measure, Gini index is extended to form a family of income inequality measures known as Single-Series Gini (S-Gini) indices. In this study, we develop empirical likelihood (EL) and jackknife empirical…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-29 Sreelakshmi N , Sudheesh K Kattumannil , Rituparna Sen

The categorical Gini covariance is a dependence measure between a numerical variable and a categorical variable. The Gini covariance measures dependence by quantifying the difference between the conditional and unconditional distributional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Saparya Suresh , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

We develop a jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) framework for inference on parameters defined through multivariate three-sample U-statistic. From three independent multivariate samples, we construct JEL ratio statistic based on suitable…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-03 Naresh Garg , Litty Mathew , Isha Dewan , Sudheesh Kumar Kattumannil

Semivariance is a measure of the dispersion of all observations that fall above the mean or target value of a random variable and it plays an important role in life-length, actuarial and income studies. In this paper, we develop a new…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-29 Saparya Suresh , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

Identifying statistical dependence between the features and the label is a fundamental problem in supervised learning. This paper presents a framework for estimating dependence between numerical features and a categorical label using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Silu Zhang , Xin Dang , Dao Nguyen , Dawn Wilkins , Yixin Chen

Log symmetric distributions are useful in modeling data which show high skewness and have found applications in various fields. Using a recent characterization for log symmetric distributions, we propose a goodness of fit test for testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-08 Anjana S , Sudheesh Kattumannil

Standard Gini covariance and Gini correlation play important roles in measuring the dependence of random variables with heavy tails. However, the asymmetry brings a substantial difficulty in interpretation. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-10 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang , Hailin Sang

Heavy-tailed distributions, such as the Cauchy distribution, are acknowledged for providing more accurate models for financial returns, as the normal distribution is deemed insufficient for capturing the significant fluctuations observed in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ganesh Vishnu Avhad , Ananya Lahiri , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

We propose a new Gini correlation to measure dependence between a categorical and numerical variables. Analogous to Pearson $R^2$ in ANOVA model, the Gini correlation is interpreted as the ratio of the between-group variation and the total…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-10 Xin Dang , Dao Nguyen , Yixin Chen , Junying Zhang

We propose the so-called jackknife empirical likelihood approach for the survey data of general unequal probability sampling designs, and analyze parameters defined according to U-statistics. We prove theoretically that jackknife…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-28 Mengdong Shang , Xia Chen

In many applications, parameters of interest are estimated by solving some non-smooth estimating equations with $U$-statistic structure. Jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) approach can solve this problem efficiently by reducing the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-18 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang , Yichuan Zhao

In the present article, we discuss jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) and adjusted jackknife empirical likelihood (AJEL) based inference for finding confidence intervals for probability weighted moment (PWM). We obtain the asymptotic…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-13 Deepesh Bhati , Sudheesh K Kattumannil , N Sreelakshmi

In the present article, we propose jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) ratio test for testing the independence of time to failure and cause of failure in competing risks data. We use U-statistic theory to derive the JEL ratio test. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-19 Sreelakshmy N. , Sreedevi E. P

Bivariate extreme-value distributions have been used in modeling extremes in environmental sciences and risk management. An important issue is estimating the dependence function, such as the Pickands dependence function. Some estimators for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Liang Peng , Linyi Qian , Jingping Yang

Jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) is an effective modified version of empirical likelihood method (EL). Through the construction of the jackknife pseudo-values, JEL overcomes the computational difficulty of EL method when its constraints…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-15 Ying-Ju Chen , Wei Ning

This article proposes an inferential framework for comparing predictor importance in classification problems with categorical response variables. The approach is based on the categorical Gini correlation (CGC) proposed by Dang et al.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Sameera Hewage , Yongli Sang

We introduce a novel approach called the Bayesian Jackknife empirical likelihood method for analyzing survey data obtained from various unequal probability sampling designs. This method is particularly applicable to parameters described by…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-14 Mengdong Shang , Xia Chen

The categorical Gini correlation proposed by Dang et al. is a dependence measure to characterize independence between categorical and numerical variables. The asymptotic distributions of the sample correlation under dependence and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›